Freshman Dean’s Office Volume 2021 Issue XIII Yard Bulletin November 10, 2017 You may view the Yard Bulletin on the FDO Website (www.fdo.fas.harvard.edu). Upcoming Events Message from the Dean  Saturday, November 11, 8PM — Jeff For those of you traveling to New Haven for “Tain” Watts in Concert with the The Game on Saturday, November 18, I hope Harvard Jazz Bands. Earlier this year, the that you have a great time and use good New York Times wrote that Watts “might be the most judgment, especially as it concerns health and important straight-ahead jazz drummer of his generation.” safety. Remember, if you are partying: keep in As a composer, Watts walks the line between contemporary mind that Connecticut’s drinking age is the classical, jazz, folkloric, and hip hop. His residency at same as that of Massachusetts (i.e. 21). There is no immunity Harvard will be a student-based exploration and celebration provided by a college campus. Even with legal consumption, of Watts’ talent, experience, and creative expression as a ensure that people know what they are drinking, pace jazz artist. $10 tickets are available through the Harvard Box themselves, and consume food. Don’t leave a drunk person Office or at the door starting at 7PM. Lowell Lecture Hall. alone. Be ready to call in help.  Monday, November 13, 4PM — Writers The Yale Bowl is an extraordinary venue. I look forward to your Speak: Michael Ondaatje in Conversation with reports from the inside next Saturday, where, of course, the Claire Messud. Michael Ondaatje is the author team can best feel your support, and you can demonstrate your of five novels, a memoir, a nonfiction book on Crimson loyalty. film, and several books of poetry. His novel The $25 game tickets are for sale at the Murr Center (65 North English Patient won the Man Booker Prize, and his fourth Harvard St.), 9AM-5PM, Monday-Friday, and at dinner in novel, Anil’s Ghost, won the Irish Times International Fiction Annenberg on Thursday, November 16. Shuttles will run to and Prize, the Giller Prize, and the Prix Médicis. Born in Sri from New Haven on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Shuttle Lanka, Ondaatje now lives in Toronto. Memorial Church. tickets ($48) are available now through the Harvard Box Office  Monday, November 13, 6-7:30PM — and are eligible for SEF: 617-496-2222. Box Office hours: Inspiring or Tiring? Mental Health Tuesday-Sunday, 12-6PM. Please visit thegame.fas.harvard.edu & the Media. There has been a recent for additional information on The Game. Go Crimson! rise in portrayals of mental health in the media. Programs like Thirteen Reasons Why, To the Bone, Halloween Happenings and BoJack Horseman have offered various portrayals of mental illnesses. Additionally, people are becoming more Straus A The Class enjoyed a of 2021 concerned with how our generation's relationship with special study donned break on their social media is affecting our mental health. In what ways do Halloween, costumes the media's representations of mental health affect us in our roasting in the marshmallows Fright daily lives? Come join your Diversity Peer Educators for a and building Night discussion with snacks and refreshments! Sever Hall 204. S’mores over a photo fire. booth.  Thursday, November 16, 12:15-12:45PM — Midday Organ Recital: Angela Kraft Kross. Freshman Fun Angela Kraft Kross, the artist-in-residence at Congregational Church of San Mateo in San Mateo, Freshman Kickback with Snacks and Music California, will perform. Recitals are performed on Friday, November 10, 8-11PM Harvard’s famous 1958 D. A. Flentrop organ. Audience Straus Common Room members are invited to lunch quietly while listening. Don’t miss this chance for the Class of 2021 to kick Admission is free. , Busch Hall. back and enjoy a diverse music selection while  Thursday, November 16, 5PM — Spiritual munching on yummy snacks, such as pretzels and Ecologies: Sustainability and Transcendence chips. Relieve some of the stress of that Ivy-League in Contemporary Asia. The crisis of global workload, and meet more of your classmates! modernity has been produced by human overreach that was founded upon a paradigm of Throwback Movie Night national modernization. Today, three global Thursday, November 16, 8-11PM changes—the rise of non-western powers, the crisis of Straus Common Room environmental sustainability, and the loss of authoritative Interested in reliving childhood memories? Come sources of transcendence—define our condition. Prasenjit watch Jump In, the 2007 Disney Channel original Duara, Professor of East Asian Studies at Duke University, movie. Sing along to the throwback jams, and catch will deliver this lecture. Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South. up with other students before Harvard-Yale! Freshman Dean’s Office Resources for Freshmen Reminders Advising Corner. Speak with departmental FDO Closure. Morton Prince House In observance 6 Prescott St. and other advisers over lunch in of Veterans Cambridge, MA 02138 Annenberg, 12-2PM, on scheduled days throughout the year. Ask a question on the Day, University offices will Phone: 617-495-1574 fly, or sit down for a longer conversation. Next week: be closed Friday, Fax: 617-496-1624 Classics, Monday, November 13; Office of Undergraduate November 10, however, E-mail: [email protected] Research and Fellowships (URAF), Tuesday, November 14; classes will still meet. Hours: Mon. - Fri., 9AM-5PM Science Education and Undergraduate Science Research, Check for Lost & Found Wednesday, November 15; Statistics, Thursday, November items at the FDO. Lost 16; Neurobiology, Friday, November 17. Submissions something at a freshman Bureau of Study Counsel @ 5 Linden St.: event this semester? The Please send submissions by FDO has a collection of Tuesday at 9:00AM to:  Learning in a Context of Loss. For water bottles, sunglasses, students who have experienced the [email protected] jewelry, and other small death of someone who mattered to Published Fridays. items found at events like them. Explore how your learning is influenced by your IM Field Day and the First experience of loss (and vice versa). Register online at Safety Notice Chance Dance. Feel free to bsc.harvard.edu. Wednesday, November 15, 2-3PM. stop by 6 Prescott St. To contact an FDO representative in during our business hours the event of a serious, non-academic  Study @ 5 Linden. Did you know that the BSC offers a (Monday-Friday, 9AM- emergency, please call your proctor, or great alternative to the usual study spaces on campus? the Police at (617) Stop by Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10AM-4:30PM, and 5PM) to look for any lost 495-1212, or, on campus, 5-1212. take advantage of our quiet, cozy study space. Drop in items. Safety and other emergency messages for just a quick review of your notes, or grab a cup of are displayed as soon as possible on the coffee and a snack, and settle in all afternoon to News and Notices section of the work on that paper. Remember that during College home page at reading period and exams, the study space is www.college.harvard.edu. open Monday-Friday, 10AM-4:30PM. Opportunities for Freshmen Pack Meals for the Those in Need This Thanksgiving. Join the Harvard Chaplains, students, and members of the community at the annual Interfaith Thanksgiving Meal-Packaging Service Project. 30,000 meals will be packed and distributed to local charities! To volunteer, or to make a donation online, please: visit chaplains.harvard.edu, or contact [email protected]. Sunday, November 12, 12-5PM, 50 Church St., Atrium, 4th floor. Take the President’s Innovation Challenge for Entrepreneurship. Hosted by the Harvard Innovation Labs, the President’s Innovation Challenge harnesses the creativity, ingenuity, and diversity of our community and encourages participants to scrutinize the most pressing challenges of our time. We are seeking three broad categories of ideas that will make the world better: Social Impact or Cultural Enterprise; Health or Life Sciences; and Open (a track for ideas that transcend other categories). The i-lab will offer workshops, one-on-one advising sessions, and networking events to support students interested in applying to the Challenge. In the spring, a panel of expert judges will select 15 finalists, who will be eligible to win more than $300,000 in total prize money and Bertarelli Foundation prizes. The application deadline is Tuesday, January 2, 2018. Get involved at the Pitch, Mix, and Match event, Tuesday, November 14, at 6PM, when students interested in gaining team members can pitch their ideas. Visit i-lab.harvard.edu/ideate/presidents-innovation-challenge for more. ARTS FIRST 2018: Apply to Perform or Exhibit Your Artwork! ARTS FIRST, A Harvard Celebration of the Arts (April 26-29, 2018), is Harvard's annual showcase of student and faculty creativity. Come be part of it! Plan, participate, or volunteer: apply to create public art in , perform in the ARTS FIRST Performance Fair, or volunteer for the festival! Final deadline for public art applications is: Thursday, December 14. See website for other deadlines and more information: ofa.fas.harvard.edu/arts/about-arts-first-festival. Crimson Corner Take a break from your mid-term studying, and come cheer on your fellow Crimson in the following free contests:  Men’s Basketball vs. MIT. It’s the team’s home opener!  Football vs. Penn. Come check out the Friday, November 10, 7PM, Lavietes Pavillion. last home game of the season! This game will honor all of our senior  Women’s Ice Hockey vs. Yale. Free “Beat football players, as well as all of our Yale” banners. Saturday, November 11, nation’s veterans. Free sandwiches and drinks for students. 3PM, Bright-Landry Hockey Center. Saturday, November 11, 12PM, .